The Pajama Entrepreneur can never resist new products and services, especially those that promise to: keep spam out of email inboxes for good; take the mystery out of eating healthy wherever you are; bring personal finance management to a new level; let anyone develop games; reduce people’s impact on the planet from energy consumption to [...]
Continue reading...28 June 2008
I just posted an article about the success of mobile virtual network operator, Blyk, which has signed up 100,000 members in less than a year. Compare this to the 170,000 subscribers signed up by failed MVNO, Helio, in the US which has been around since October 2005 and has wasted over $270 million of investor [...]
Continue reading...19 March 2008
Geosign, a startup that raked in $160M in VC funding, blew up one year later after its business model — gaming the Google search engine — was effectively shut down via a change in Google’s algorithm. Read more here.
Continue reading...15 February 2008
I live in Amsterdam, everyone should know that by looking at my Facebook profile. Yet, Facebook has inserted this ad for Blockbuster in my news feed. Totally irrelevant to me. This is nothing more than SPAM. In a few months, my news feed will be clogged with utterly useless ads. How do I opt out [...]
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5 September 2008
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